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as I was nearly sixty, my life would change once more I was made redundant from my job, this had happened once before the chance of finding new work, was down to zero, nada, nil the jobs I did apply for, I didn't quite fit the bill the length of time I'd worked there was nigh on twenty years the day that I was leaving, was filled with goodbyes, hugs an tears not seeing my workmates every day, my life would seem so strange just another of life's chapters that I would need to re-arrange I was chatting to my husband and then he turned to say get a job in care work, it's what you do with me each day I applied and got a job, it's with a home care company they said the work was permanent, not like with an agency but the hours were so unsociable, and the travel costs, too high and I needed to earn money, to afford to get us by when on a zero hour contract, your worktimes vary from day to day one week you're paid a fortune, week after, no hours, no pay once more I'm out job hunting, as I need a steady wage with our income and expenditure, there is a balance I must gauge at last I found a job, in which the hours were set that meant I could be sure, that our financial needs were met.